The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1887-08-05
Pinkney for attorney general. and I. v
RouRhman fnr comntroller.

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acre tract not . tree was left standing, aud
the roads in all directions are completely
blocked by fallen trees and timber. A party
returned leading their horses. Their wagons
could not be extricated and we're left behind.
Attachments to the amount Of s115.e COS
have been run ON the cattle firm Of Curtis &
Atkinson and E. r. 4 w. L. Insrd, of Henri
etta, Texas. Their liabilities are o. 500, 900.
and assets el,115,0 900. The Henrietta Ma
ttonal bank, with q capital stock Of $4,000,
and deposits Of ts7,t00, closed its doors at
noon Monday. The cause Of the failure is
the depressed condition of the cattle market,
DR.. E. D. Stamford died at Louisville,
Kentucky. on Tuesday morning, aged So.
He was seriously Ill for . week before his
marriage to Mrs. Laura Scott, q little over
two weeks ago DR.. Standifordwas an active
candidate for the United States senate to
succeed Beck. He was ex-president of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad and was
actively concerned in several other concerns,
also being . farmer on an extensive scale.
A large number Of distillers mel at Chicago
Tuesday to discuss the organization Of a
whisky trust on the plan Of the Standard OH
company, the plan being to unite in a monop-
oily all OF the dtstillcrics west of the OAio
river. 1t is understood the scheme will be In
full operation in a month and that the name
adopted is "The Western Distillers' and Cat.
tie Feeders Trust" The amount OF stock to
he issued is estimated at el0.OOO,OOO.
A south bound passenger train on the north
Wisconsin division of the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis Il Omaha railroad, ran into a
switch at Cumberland station on Monday,
Engineer John Donahue, Of Hudson, and
Fireman Webster, of Altoona, were killed,
and the baggagcmastcr injured. The engine,
express and baggage cars were wrecked. The
freight train had been side-tracked to await
thu passage of the passenger train and the
freight hands failed to close the switch.
"Big Boston," a large six.story brick build.
ing in Minneapolis, occupied by w. E. Steele
& Co. and the sFrankltn Bazaar" were de.
stroyed by fire Tuesday night. The fire for a
time threatened the destruction of the whole
square. ALI the engines in the city were at
work. The losses will not fall short OF a half
or thrce.quartcrs of a million. A fire In the
Warner block injured several firemen and
caused the loss of $4,000 to the occupants of
the building.
A sensation was created in society circles
in st. Louis on Tuesday, by the institution of
divorce proceedings by Mrs. Sarah H. O'Day
against hcs husband, John O'Day, to whom
She was married twcnty-three years ago. After
the hearing of testimony the court granted
the decree and awarded the plaintiff alilnony
in the sum of $4,000 cash, the homestead
property and the rights and privileges of IL
single person, with the custody of her young
est son. O'Day is first vicc-prcsident of the
st. Louis Il San Francisco railroad, chairman
of the Democratic state committee and n mil
l~ionairc.
AT 10 O'Clock Wednesday evening as the
west bound freight approached Franconiu
station near Needles, New Mexico, the engine
plunged at full speed into an arroyo, the
bridge over which had burned. The freight
cars piled up on top of the engine, making a
terrible wreck. A fireman named Sparks was
instantly killed. j.. 4. Riley, engineer, and
George Gibson, brakeman, fatally injured
TO add to the terror the wrecked cars caught
tire and burned. Loss to the company. 500.
0OO.
Robert Hill, Of til, wholesale dry goods
firm of Storm & Hill, of Chicago, testified
Thursday in the Doodle trial that in order to
obtain trade from the county he had to pre-.
sent Wardens Varncll, McGarigle and Frey
with about sl,soo worth of merchandise
yearly for their personal use. W. II. GRAY
,tetailed the manner in which ne turned over
1900 to the gang for giving him al; a~rtes.an
we'll contract. Tire. of the defendants
lawyers, NILS, Ingiham and Forest, with.
drew from the case absolutely.
J.T Lane, a prominent attorney and re.
spcctei citizen of Nashville, Tenn, was sit
ting outside his Office door on Tuesday morn.
lag When N. Is. Lester came along with a
doublc-barrellcd shotgun and cmpticd one
barrel into Lanes left side. The wounded
lnau fell to the sidewalk and begged the ne.
sassin not to shoot again, but he deliberately
fired the contents Of the other barrel into
Lanes heart, killing him. The murdere. ].s.
to be removed from town for safe kCc,,i,p.
Lester had some time ago married a widow
whose money received from her first Husband
WAS secured to her children, and Lane was
appointed administrator. Lester conceived
a violent hostility to Lane and had several
times Threatened to kill him.
Interest In the ALI Mccoy trial at Ports
mouth, ONO, is increasing every day, and
every day the testimony seems to bear down
harder On the defense. Mccoy and his at
torncys, however, show no signs of weaken.
ing and only ask a pcstponement of popular
Judgment until their evidence comes in. Miss
Northup, sister of the dead man, takes an
active interest in the prosecution, even c.--
plo, ing two attorneys to assist the state. Til.
testimony lie not only hard onAlf Mccoy, but
bears heavily on his brother James, and goes
farntoward sustaining the charges of his
being an accomplish.
A strike occurred on the New Mexico, Arl-
iona and Sonora railroad at Ncgalcs, A. t.,
Monday morning, the brakemen refusing TO
go u The trouble was caused by supcrin-
tendent Richardson issuing orders compelling
the men to make up their own trains in the
Nogales yards. TO this the men say they
would not have six hours rest out of the
twcntv-four. The conductors also refuse to
take trains out. Being %short-handed they
claim the responsibility too great. The men
are orderly ana create no disturbance, but are
determined. All trains are stopped, includ.
ing passengers and mails.
A construction train on the Chicago and